I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the
cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an
educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private
agencies on the state and
local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health program.
While transition is nothing new in this space, this particular transition is
causing uncertainty as
educational professionals face complete redefinition of their standards and outcomes, and redefined roles of federal, state and
local education
agencies.